Take My Half
Updated: 1 day ago
⋆ Beomgyu solo song
⋆ Genre [Source: Naver/Big Hit]: Rock Ballad
⋆ Producing Credits: Slow Rabbit, PXPILLON, Beomgyu
⋆ Writing/Composing Credits: Slow Rabbit, PXPILLON, Adam Argyle, Iain James, Beomgyu, Hwang Yu Bin, Ellie Suh, January 8th, danke, YIYIJIN, Cho Yun Kyoung, Woo Seung Yeon, Kim Bo Eun, Na Jung Ah, Kim In Hyung
ABOUT/MEANING: “Take My Half” portrays love as the instinct to share what you have with someone you care about. If “you” are struggling while the boy has happiness, comfort or strength to spare, his response is simple: take half of mine. Rather than remaining beside someone while they carry their pain alone, he wants whatever he possesses to become something they can share.
This generosity is not presented simply as self-sacrifice. The boy has learned that tightly protecting happiness for himself does not necessarily make him happier; the more desperately he once tried to hold onto it, the emptier he felt. By making space for someone else, he discovers a different kind of fulfilment. Giving his half away can become its own source of happiness, because another person’s joy matters deeply enough to become intertwined with his own.
Beomgyu, who co-wrote and produced the song, explained:
“I’m the kind of person who always thinks I’d give up my own happiness to stop someone I care about from being unhappy. Or if it means they can be happy, I’d share anything I have - and that’s what this song is about.”
Within The Star Chapter: TOGETHER, this expands staying together beyond simply remaining beside someone. Love means allowing another person’s wellbeing to matter to your own and being willing to share what you can when they are struggling: I won’t let you bear this alone when I have something I can give.
ADDITIONAL INTERPRETATION: Some MOA interpret “Take My Half” as a thematic continuation of Beomgyu’s solo song “Panic.” This connection has not been established as the song’s official narrative, but the two create a compelling emotional progression when read together.
“Panic” turns inward, offering hope to a self struggling through an emotional winter and waiting for spring to return. “Take My Half” turns that compassion outward: having understood what it means to need comfort, the speaker is now willing to share his own happiness with someone else rather than leave them to endure their difficult season alone.
Read this way, the progression is not simply from suffering to healing, but from experiencing pain to allowing that experience to deepen your care for another person. The speaker still carries his own scars, yet making space for someone else becomes part of his healing too: if you are still standing in winter, I will share my spring with you.
LYRICS - ENGLISH TRANSLATION (translations by @translatingTXT)
"Let everyone but me fall apart."
That was the childish wish I used to make
Happiness kept slipping thought
The cracks between my tightly clenched fists
The more I had, the emptier I felt
When I finally faced this feeling
Now, even for the smallest things
I’ll leave half empty for you
Take my hand
I feel like I’ve finally grown, even just a little
You can take my half
I won’t be confused anymore
About what I truly want (ooh)
These once small timid shoulders
Have become a dam for your tears
CONNECTION: This recalls “Maze in the Mirror,” the first TXT song produced by Beomgyu, where he describes “my fragile shoulders” as unable to hide or stand tall beneath his own uncertainty. “Take My Half” returns to strikingly similar imagery from a more mature perspective: the shoulders that were once “small” and “timid” have grown strong enough to become “a dam for your tears.” Read together, the images suggest a movement from struggling to carry his own emotional weight towards becoming capable of helping carry someone else’s.
Now, even for the smallest things
I’ll leave half empty for you
Fill my heart
The deep scars in my soul begin to heal
You can take my half
Ooh...
When I give you my half
The empty space I let go
Now flows with happiness
You can take my half
(Ooh, ooh)
Just take my half
(Ooh, ooh)
Just take my half
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